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5. Smaller Offices = Consumer/Small Office Devices
• Connectivity to a lot of smaller offices is done using consumer
equipment
– Think Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, or what the local store
carries
– Consumer equipment doesn’t have the long support
lifecycles of gear from Palo Alto, Cisco, or Fortinet
– It also is a lot easier to set up for non-IT professionals
– When you have limited resources, you’re not going to put
something in that has a high chance of breaking and can’t
quickly fix or replace. You’re going to go to Wal-Mart or
someplace within a 30 minute drive
• When you need something quickly and have patients
waiting, you are not going to wait
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